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''Three Weeks With Lady X'' is a historical romance written by Eloisa James and published in 2014. It was a ''New York Times'' Bestseller and was nominated for two ''Romantic Times'' awards. The novel is considered a Regency romance, with much of the conflict revolving around the societal expectations of the time. In a departure from other novels of this type, James gave her heroine an occupation. Her interior decorating skills were inspired by James' love for HGTV. The hero is also unusual for the time period, being neither a lord nor legitimate. The primary and the secondary characters are richly drawn and fully developed. The novel is considered very sensual, and marked James' first foray into more explicit love scenes. The hero was first introduced as a child in James' 2009 work ''This Duchess of Mine''. The protagonists have secondary roles in James's next book, ''Four Nights With a Duke''. ==Inspiration and publication== Eloisa James is the pen name of Mary Bly, a professor of English at Fordham University. ''Three Weeks With Lady X'' is the seventh novel of James's Desperate Duchesses series, and the first to focus on the children of the original characters. The hero of ''Three Weeks'', Tobias "Thorn" Dautry, was introduced in James' 2009 novel ''This Duchess of Mine''. In that book, Thorn was a child.〔 James said that having years, instead of weeks, to think about the character helped her to bring more depth to his story.〔 James also noted that she quite enjoyed bringing back those characters, ten years after the events of the book in which they were featured.〔 The story was partially inspired by Homes and Gardens Television (HGTV). James is an ardent fan of the network's competitions between decorators and interior designers, and the programs made her think more about what redecorating may have been like during the Regency period. Her research had shown that many noble families were essentially bankrupt and often sold their estates or lost them to gambling debts. She speculated that the new owners, similar to those featured on HGTV shows, would want to redecorate. The novel was released as a paperback, ebook, and audiobook on March 25, 2014〔〔 It is a full-length novel, as opposed to a category romance, with the paperback running to 384 pages.〔 James had significant input to the cover of the American edition. The cover is bisected, with a strip of black on the left side and the picture of a woman on the right. James takes credit for suggesting the solid color on the left, although the art department had to convince her that black was the appropriate color. A sequel to the book, ''Four Nights with the Duke'', was released in March 2015 and follows one of the secondary characters, Lord Vander Brody. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Three Weeks With Lady X」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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